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| Description: When the electors’ votes were counted in February 1801, the Republicans won New York State—and, seemingly, the presidential election. But the seventy-three Republican electors, each of whom cast two votes, each cast one vote for Jefferson and another for Burr, assuming that Jefferson would become president and Burr, vice president. However, the Constitution provided that the candidate with the most electoral votes would become president. Because the electoral vote was tied, the election went to the House of Representatives, where Jefferson ultimately prevailed.
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